Upcycling solid food wastes and by-products into human consumption products

An system for upcycling solid food wastes and by-products into food-grade nutritional products, the system being configured to:

• receive a raw plant-based material;
• and
• continuously subject the raw plant-based material to steam flashing at predetermined temperature and predetermined pressure to:
• sterilize the raw plant-based material;
• destroy antinutrients present in the raw plant-based material;
• cause a break up of larger cellular and subcellular units of the raw plant-based material into smaller cellular and subcellular units of the raw plant-based material to transform the raw plant-based material into a food ingredient;
• and
• reduce water content in the food ingredient.

A food-grade nutritional product comprising:

• a food ingredient produced from a raw plant-based material, wherein the food ingredient is produced by a method comprising:
• supplying the raw plant-based material;
• continuously subjecting the raw plant-based material to steam flashing at predetermined temperature and predetermined pressure to:
• sterilize the raw plant-based material;
• destroy antinutrients present in the raw plant-based material;
• cause a break up of larger cellular and subcellular units of the raw plant-based material into smaller cellular and subcellular units of the raw plant-based material to transform the raw plant-based material into the food ingredient;
• and
• reduce water content in the food ingredient.